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Definition of Pinguecula
1. Noun. A slightly elevated elastic tissue deposit in the conjunctiva that may extend to the cornea but does not cover it.
Medical Definition of Pinguecula
1. A yellow spot on the white of the eye, usually toward the inside (nose side) of the eye, associated with aging. It looks fatty (in latin the word pinguiculus means fattish), and is due to an accumulation of connective tissue. (12 Dec 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pinguecula
Literary usage of Pinguecula
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Diseases of the eye: A Handbook of Ophthalmic Practice for Students and by George Edmund De Schweinitz (1913)
"According to Fuchs, pterygium is a development of a pinguecula, and like it, ...
As the Pterygium develops, the characters of the pinguecula disappear. ..."
2. The Principles and Practice of Ophthalmic Medicine and Surgery by Thomas Wharton Jones (1863)
"pinguecula.1 This is a small whitish-yellow tumor, from the size of a pin's head
to that of a small pea, in the sclerotic conjunctiva and subjacent cellular ..."
3. A Manual of the Diseases of the Human Eye: Intended for Surgeons Commencing by Carl Heinrich Weller, George Cunningham Monteath (1821)
"The Fatty Film, pinguecula.* A small, flat, dirty, yellow swelling, lying
immediately under the conjunctiva, mostly observed in the external canthus, ..."
4. Diagnosis from Ocular Symptoms by Matthias Lanckton Foster (1917)
"pinguecula Our attention may be arrested by a round, oval, or triangular ...
This pinguecula is composed of conjunctiva and subconjunctival tissue that has ..."
5. A Handbook of ophthalmic science and practice by Henry Edward Juler (1884)
"THE VARIETIES OF CONJUNCTIVITIS — PTERYGIUM—pinguecula — AMYLOID
DEGENERATION—XEROSIS—SARCOMA. INFLAMMATIONS of the conjunctiva can be conveniently
divided ..."
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